Room 1 Technology - Treasure Boxes

Our technology challenge was to design a suitable package to protect our prayer stones. First we brainstormed our ideas. We talked about which packaging would be our best option and why. We decided that a cardboard box would be suitable to hold our precious taonga.

Our next step was to find a suitable template. We experimented with some templates found on the internet. Folding the boxes was a real challenge, but we worked together to get them done. When we found the right template, we had to take it home and our Mums and Dads helped us to scale it on to a piece of cardboard.

When our cardboard boxes were finished, we gave them two coats of paint and waited for them to dry before we could decorate them.

We had to draft our designs onto a piece of scrap paper and think about the colours that we could use to make our work stand out. We shared our ideas with a buddy and got some feedback about how we could improve our design.

We used pastels to transfer our ideas onto our treasure boxes. Then we put shredded paper inside our boxes to sit our prayer stones on. We were pretty pleased with our final result ...